OT: The M-Fing Food Thread

[Wayward DP]

Hard pass for me

if it is octopus, hard no for ethical reasons.

if it is squid, I'll eat it raw if it's dead.

 

[Habsy]

what is it?

looks fucking alive. that's a pretty firm line in the sand of my culinary preferences.

It's live octopus

Russians. Go figure.

 

[Habsy]

That shit is downright Klingon.

 

[Wayward DP]

It's live octopus

Russians. Go figure.

octopi are too brilliant for me to any longer be okay eating one.

 

[Wayward DP]

one of my favourite scuba experiences was my night dive in Utila. early on in the dive we found a Caribbean octopus doing its thing. The octopus was bizarrely brazen and unfazed by us and allowed us to observe it for nearly 30 consecutive minutes. never before happened in the life of our DM at the time (or mine).

never happened since either. they're usually quite shy. but absolutely magnificent. you can literally see them change colours and camouflage in real time. so cool.

 

[Habsy]

one of my favourite scuba experiences was my night dive in Utila. early on in the dive we found a Caribbean octopus doing its thing. The octopus was bizarrely brazen and unfazed by us and allowed us to observe it for nearly 30 consecutive minutes. never before happened in the life of our DM at the time (or mine).

never happened since either. they're usually quite shy. but absolutely magnificent. you can literally see them change colours and camouflage in real time. so cool.

That's spectacular. Lucky lucky dive.

 

[Wayward DP]

That's spectacular. Lucky lucky dive.

I've unfortunately accepted that much of the best diving of my life may already be behind me. The reality is that we are destroying our oceans and so some of the highlights of previous dives may simply no longer exist. It really sucks. But I will continue to dive and be disappointed if the other option is not to dive at all.

Good example is the Great Barrier Reef. I was there in 2011. Pretty sure most of what I saw is now bleached and dead.

 

[zeke]

I've unfortunately accepted that much of the best diving of my life may already be behind me. The reality is that we are destroying our oceans and so some of the highlights of previous dives may simply no longer exist. It really sucks. But I will continue to dive and be disappointed if the other option is not to dive at all.

Good example is the Great Barrier Reef. I was there in 2011. Pretty sure most of what I saw is now bleached and dead.

https://www.aims.gov.au/information-centre/news-and-stories/reef-recovery-window-after-decade-disturbances

Redirect Notice

 

[Habsy]

Mother Earth: hold my, well anything that grows really.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

I've unfortunately accepted that much of the best diving of my life may already be behind me. The reality is that we are destroying our oceans and so some of the highlights of previous dives may simply no longer exist. It really sucks. But I will continue to dive and be disappointed if the other option is not to dive at all.

Good example is the Great Barrier Reef. I was there in 2011. Pretty sure most of what I saw is now bleached and dead.

All this professed love for diving, you sound like Alex Burrows.

 

[lecoqsportif]

Vacation foodin’. Went to a place that grows oyster mushrooms - bought some harvested just that day. Amazing, simply sautéed with new onions. Also, it sturgeon season, so we had it fresh and processed into rilletttes. And of course the new potatoes are available now. Yum.

 

[CH1]

octopi are too brilliant for me to any longer be okay eating one.

I though l was the only one with this dietary quirk

 

[Wayward DP]

All this professed love for diving, you sound like Alex Burrows.

I don't think he ever professed his love so much as it could be assumed he felt that way through his actions

 

[LeafOfFaith]

So much for trying everything once.

Because I was pressed for time, I just had a Chick Fil A grilled chicken sandwich, and it was one of the worst fast food experiences ever. What a shit product. What the fuck are all these people standing in line for all day? I didn't even eat half the sandwich it was so bad.

Long live Harvey's.

 

[LeafGm]

It’s because Chick-Fil-A’s chicken sandwich is made with hateful Christian fundamentalism, as opposed to Harvey’s chicken sandwich, which is made with love.

 

[Wayward DP]

It’s because Chick-Fil-A’s chicken sandwich is made with hateful Christian fundamentalism, as opposed to Harvey’s chicken sandwich, which is made with love.

Chick-Fil-A knows what our people did to Jesus...

 

[Volcanologist]

It’s because Chick-Fil-A’s chicken sandwich is made with hateful Christian fundamentalism, as opposed to Harvey’s chicken sandwich, which is made with love.

Love...but, regrettably for some I'm sure, no discernable flavour or redeeming qualities

 

[MindzEye]

Their chicken sando was easily the most overrated fast food item I've ever tried. Was spoken about in reverent tones...and it was just a passable fried chicken sandwich.

Better than the McChicken or that abomination burger king serves I guess, but that's being damned by faint praise.

 

[Wayward DP]

Their chicken sando was easily the most overrated fast food item I've ever tried. Was spoken about in reverent tones...and it was just a passable fried chicken sandwich.

Better than the McChicken or that abomination burger king serves I guess, but that's being damned by faint praise.

how does it compare to our lord and saviour Harveys though?

 

[MindzEye]

how does it compare to our lord and saviour Harveys though?

Comparing any fried chicken sandwich to a grill chicken just isn't fair.